Census of England and Wales, 1921 : general report with appendices / [General Register Office].
- General Register Office Northern Ireland
- Date:
- 1927
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Census of England and Wales, 1921 : general report with appendices / [General Register Office]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![From the proportion figures of Table X VII it will be seen that self-contained dwellings of three rooms or less account for 16-9 per cent. of the whole, 48-8 per cent. or very nearly one half, contain four or five living rooms only, 28-6 per cent. six, seven or eight rooms, while in 5-8 per cent. there are nine or more rooms. Plural occupation, that is occupation of a single dwelling by more than one family, is present in each of the types distinguished, and, as is natural, its frequency Increases with the increase in size of the dwelling, though, owing to the relative scarceness of dwellings of the largest type, the numbers are highest in dwellings of 6-8 rooms, where of 2,278,444 total dwelling units, 334,583 or 15 per cent. were in the occupation of two families each, and 91,537 or 4 per cent. each contained three or more families. Even in the smallest dwellings, that is, those of three rooms or less, 17,718 out of 1,349,390 were occupied by two families and 885 by three or more families each. Alternatively, it may be stated that of the 8,739,197 private families enumerated in the country at large 7,006,707 or 80-2 per cent. were living in the single occupation of separate dwellings. 1,195,614 or 13-7 per cent. were living two families to a dwelling. 536,876 or 6-1 per cent. were housed in dwellings containing three or more families each. Conspicuous as is the difference between the number of families and the separate dwellings available for them and the evident need, therefore, for a considerable increase in the latter, it must be remembered that, in the sense that the term “ family ”’ is used for census purposes, the ideal of one dwelling for each family is an impracticable one since a single lodger boarding separately from the occupier is regarded—as on previous occasions—as a separate family. This and similar cases involving a degree of inter-dependence between one “ family’ and another, render plural occupation inevitable and the total families must always be in excess of the occupied dwellings. Throughout the country the 4 and 5-roomed group of dwellings usually shows a marked predominance over the other groups distinguished in the classification, but there is considerable variation in the incidence of the smaller and larger premises, as may be seen from the following table, which contrasts counties with the highest and lowest average number of rooms per dwelling. TABLE XVIII.—DISTRIBUTION OF 1,000 DWELLINGS ACCORDING TO SIZE OF OCCUPATION, AND AVERAGE NUMBER OF FAMILIES PER DWELLING IN CERTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTIES. Proportion per 1,000 |AV€l| Average number of families dwellings having his f per dwelling of | rooms All 13h ges) P68 18 Ol ler ke A —5 Ph —Biige te ; rooms | rooms | rooms | ™°©€ | dwell-| rooms | rooms |rooms| ™°re | dwell- rooms]: rooms | ings. ing. Counties with the highest average number of rooms per dwelling :— Radnorshire .. .. | 125 | 402 | 324 | 149 | 6-07 | I-00 | I°OI | 1°03 | I-05 | r:02 Sussex, East 1... WT 87 5) 445) Bag \dt2g 1) 6-02 r02)],1710)| 1-28) ta 38-1 4rene Isle of Wight .. if 50 1) 40911379) Bl PO2! 4] 53-07 [E700 t) Th 02 A 0s Sr aT Aas ig Middlesex x .- | 60 | 404 | 455 BLY} 5901 T2021 ol27 eta dec asa eo London .. ce .. | I8L. |} 272.) 3423 a4 | 6785.) Tro2.|-hs20 a) eon tao. ee 00 Surrey .. ™ sii 6r | 515 .| 322 >] to2 | 5*S47) Teo | T4084 Sr - roe A 13. Frege Sussex, West .. o 75 | 508 | 320 O7 .| §°OLal L200 |.2°04 aria a 16 | are Devonshire fie .- | 134 | 408 |'340°)'r18 | 5*794 Tor] 1-08 | 1°347) 1°55!) 1-27 Westmorland .. .. | 148 | 415 | 341 96) 15°7L Att +00 | r*ODs 9102 1-04) 1°08 Merionethshire .. oie fe L7§ sedaQQL. ot S22 AAT Te is) 5-76) 19m 00N BOL ere ois sie 00 when ca Counties with the lowest average number of rooms per dwelling :-— Northumberland n= | Stone 312: ankle 22. 8 3°98 PI*O% Va°O0 Yor alt 1°53) 2-06 Durham .. 2 oe 450° 7.404 are 2i> ft 3°89 49rOs Wri 0 82 | 1-38 | 70 Yorkshire, West Riding | 340 | 485 | 152 23. | 4°30:| 1°00 } I-03 | 1:04 | 1°08 | r-02 Lancashire 4c s 1 187. 2, OSH 76 25 | 4°7I |-I°02 | £°05 | 1-13.) r-2z |'r-06 Staffordshire .. -. | TEE 626'Chiez0 23 | 4°74] I OL | 1:04 | L-06 | 1-09 | 1-04 Worcestershire .. .+ | 200m fe62Gewie2T 47 | 4°89 | I-00 | I-03 | I-06 | I-09 | I-03 Yorkshire, East Riding.. | 195 | 526 | 230 49 | 4°90 | I°OL | I-02 | 1-06 | r-0g | 1:03 Cumberland -+ | 252, ge aa7 2 AO 6I | 4°92 | I‘OL | 1°03 | I-05 | 1-07 {1-03 Warwickshire .. »- | 100 “Be401**| B07 33. | 5°OI | 1-02 | T-06 | I-09 | I-17 | 1°06 Nottinghamshire 5. 1 TLS, gt O90y | 22% 30° t] 5°P7i LOT | 1°03) 1-04 | x*06] 07 488 | 233 66 15507 1°r Yorkshire, North Riding | 213 °03 | 1°05 | 1:05 | I-09 | 1°05](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32183197_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
